Eric Reid’s new three-year contract with the Carolina Panthers should not have been a surprise.
Now the question arises: Who will play alongside him?
Reid finished as the team’s fifth-leading tackler despite only playing 13 games. Toward the end of the season, both Reid and Rivera publicly expressed interest in keeping the 27-year-old in town, with Reid claiming he wanted “market value” with his next contract and Rivera praising the safety’s on-and-off-field impact.
They weren’t bluffing — Carolina signed Reid to a 3-year, $22 million deal that should solidify its secondary for the next few years, bringing a continuity that Rivera has long craved.